IT Trends :: Thursday, August 31, 2006

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Opinion

GAFYD: What’s A Developer to Do?

By Terry Calhoun

Are you hooked into all the new Google beta stuff? Starting next week, organizations can offer staff, students, customers, employees, or whomever access to chat, calendar, Web page publishing, and Web-based e-mail. It’s called Google Apps for Your Domain (beta), also known as GAFYD or just “Google Apps,” and it is an enhancement to Gmail for Your Domain, launched last February.

Dave Girouard, vice president and general manager of Google’s enterprise business says that hundreds of universities are on board, there are hundreds of thousands of users, and it is set up and running now on tens of thousands of domains. Sigh. So many more new things to learn.

I wonder how much more will be in the premium edition ($$) slated to be offered next year? I also wonder how much it will cost. Special note: Google says that your organization will never have to pay a fee for users who sign up in beta, before it decides what fees it is going to charge!...

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IT News

UWGB to Test How Tech-Savvy Its Students Are

Aha! The media is always telling us how much more tech savvy the youngsters are...

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What Your Freshmen Don’t Know

Beloit College d'es its part each year to make faculty and staff feel old and out of touch...

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Best Practices for Helping Users to Employ E-mail More Effectively

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ASU Downtown to Test Classroom Podcasting, Live Lecture Capture

Arizona State University’s new downtown campus is handling students for the first time this fall...

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Deals, Contracts, Awards

Microsoft and Facebook in Web Ad Deal

Microsoft becomes the sole provider of banner advertising and sponsored links on Facebook...

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Google: Free Wi-Fi for Our Hometown

If you live in Mountain View, California, there’ll soon be another reason to love Google…

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New Technology

Bookstore Rush Remains in Online World

There are still lines, and they still run out of things you need...

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Toplikar: Students Steering Clear of E-Books

Parents would like to see the dollar cost come down...

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University of Kansas to Increase Wireless Internet Access

Is it everywhere yet?...

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Computer Glitches Frustrate Some University Students in North Dakota

The PeopleSoft ConnectND software serving 11 campuses reportedly...

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